Examples of 'hard-up' in a sentence

Meaning of "hard-up"

Hard-up is a phrasal verb that means to experience a lack of money or financial hardship
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  • Alternative form of hard up

How to use "hard-up" in a sentence

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Blaine must be really hard-up for business.
For a country as hard-up on its luck as Cambodia, getting around is surprisingly straightforward.
The island is being sold by a hard-up aristocratic family.
How hard-up Brits can get cheap broadband and phone deals.
Some of us still have class not hard-up like this rabble.
A hard-up student kidnaps his rich uncle's cat.
She was the fifth of seven children born into a hard-up family.
He became quite hard-up at one point.
Since he stopped shooting for us, he 's been a little hard-up for money.
You were very hard-up when you first got married?
Trips to the dentist are not the only expenses hard-up Americans are skipping.
Not hard-up millionaires.
My family and I were really very hard-up during those times.
Even so, hard-up locals still try to sneak in to illegally mine the diamonds.
And you're gonna stop hassling hard-up housewives.

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And he 's hard-up to trade them in to the Bureau.
I am more than usually hard-up.
Nick Gunar is a burnt-out, jaded and hard-up former mercenary who is having a difficult time adjusti.
Of those, half would have to come from hard-up families.
Shows you how hard-up Sunderland is.
The shop thrives . in the backroom, he lends money to hard-up farmers.
Am I that lonely and hard-up that I would fall for this?
You might even write about us guys, if you ever get hard-up for material.
Drunk, hard-Up men who will sleep.
Now, Kevin said that his parents were hard-up for cash.
I was hard-up on cash.
In the drama, Bunny insists that they are both presently hard-up.
I am smart . Am I that lonely and hard-up that I would fall for this?
Or you, a hard-up waitress, who leaves her kids every night to come to a sleazy bar?
There is lot of drunk, hard-up men.
What, are you that hard-up for cash? Hey, at least I have got an apartment.
You would have to be quite a hard-up skank to wanna jump those bones, huh, Carrie?

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